Bozhou:Take time to harvest medicinal herbs in this farming season

In recent days, farmers have been harvesting radix isatidis, a kind of Chinese medicinal herb, in the field of Tongying Village, Shihe Town, Qiaocheng District, Bozhou City.

Now that it is the midwinter, a harvesting time for Chinese medicinal herb radix isatidis, farmers are racing against time to do the gathering, drying and a range of other works to ensure a bumper harvest of the herbal medicine in Bozhou City.

Over the past few years, the city has strived to develop the cultivation of Chinese herbal medicines. At present, the planting area of Chinese herbal medicines in the city has reached up to 1.204 million mu, of which the standardized planting area is 360,000 mu. Now, the cultivation of Chinese herbal medicines has become one of the major industries for local farmers to increase income and get rich.